Gordon Senior
Professor of Art
Education:
1953-1958 - Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
1958-1960 - Wakefield College of Art: Intermediate Dip AD
1960-1962 - Leeds College of Art: NDD
1962-1963 - Post Dip in Art and Design
1963-1964 - Goldsmiths’ College, London University: ATC
Teaching:
1964-1966 - Clarendon College of Further Education – Fine Art Lecturer
1966-1984 - Northumbria University @ Newcastle: Head of Printmaking
1984-1986 - Second year Painting Tutor
1986-1990 - Head of Painting
1998-1990 - Head of Art
1990-02 - Norwich School of Art and Design, Course Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art
1997-02 - Course Leader MA Fine Art
Visiting Lecturer:
- Winchester School of Art.
- Wakefield College of Art.
- Sheffield Polytechnic.
- The Art Institute, Chicago.
- Academie Minerva Groningen.
- Sunderland Polytechnic.
- Crewe and Alsager Faculty.
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.
- Leeds Metropolitan University.
- University of Ulster at Belfast.
Areas of Expertise:
Fine Art Contemporary Practice.
Solo Exhibitions:
- Midland Gallery, Nottingham.
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LYC.Gallery, Brampton, Cumbria.
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Dovecot Gallery, Stockton.
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Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
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Northern Centre of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
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Grays City Art Gallery, Hartlepool.
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Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington.
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Alsager Gallery, Alsager.
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City Art Gallery, Dundee.
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Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
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Hardware Gallery, London.
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Grizedale Centre. Grizedale England.
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Kelling Arts Festval., Kelling England.
Group Exhibitions:
- ‘A Painterly Approach’ The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
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‘Nine from Newcastle’ York University Gallery, Toronto,Canada.
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The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.
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Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Oosterpoot, Groningen, Netherlands.
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‘Nine from Newcastle’ Fachhockschole Heilbronn, Germany.
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‘Three Artists from the North of England’ Sculpture Court, R.I.B.A. London.
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Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway.
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‘East’ International Open Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
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‘Ten Days’ Pyramid Arts Centre, London.
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‘North-East to Finland and Russia, Central house of the Artists, Moscow, Russia.
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Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia.
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“Weather View, Norwich-Den Haag” Koninkijke Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands.
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‘The Hare’ Leicester City Art Gallery, England
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Newcastle Regional Gallery,NSW, Austrailia.
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‘Sticks’ ArtSway Gallery, Hampshire, England. a Southern Arts touring exhibition
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“Drawing Connections” Beach Gallery, Kansas.
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“Strands” I Gallery, Chicago.
Commissions Awards, Residencies & Publications:
- Prizewinner Internationale Ausstellung Graphik, Vienna.
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Northern Arts Purchase Award.
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Prizewinner ‘Pernod Print Exhibition’.
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‘Barn Requiem’, commissioned by Village Arts for the Loftus Festival, supported by CVAF, Lanbaurgh on Tees, Borough Council, Northern Arts, Cleveland Arts, Cleveland County Council.
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Invited Artist Leeds Metropolitan University National and International Symposium 1992 &1994.
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NSAD research award
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Publication ‘Crossing Open Ground’
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Eastern Arts Publishing Award
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The Grizedale Forest Residency.
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“Sticks” Commissioned by Southern Arts Touring Exhibition
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‘Gordon Senior - Crossing Open Ground’, Helen Pye-Smith, ARLIS, issue 113.
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‘Crossing Open Ground by Gordon Senior’, Cathy Coutney, Art Monthly 9.95.
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“Drawing Connections” Kansas State University
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Video “ Down to Earth” Salthouse Church, North Norfolk
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Video interview “The Hare” Gysing Arts